Psalms 30:4-9

⁴All you who belong to Yahweh, sing praise to him! Think about what God, the holy one, has done, and thank him!

⁵When he becomes angry, he is angry for only a very short time HYP, but he is good to us all of our life. We may cry during the night, but the next morning we will be joyful.

⁶As for me, when I had no troubles, I said to myself, “No one will defeat me!”

⁷Yahweh, because you were good to me, at first you caused me to be safe as though I was inside MET a mountain. But then I became ill, and I thought that you had turned away from me, and I became afraid.

⁸Then I called out to you, and I pleaded for you to help me.

⁹I said, “Yahweh, ◄what will you gain if I die?/ you won't gain anything if I die►MTY. ◄In what way will it benefit you?/it won't benefit you at all► if I go to the place where the dead people are RHQ. Dead people are certainly not able to praise you RHQ, and they are not able to tell others that you are trustworthy RHQ!